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Jan 18-19 || Faking it With Gravity || a workshop with Nica Portavia and Karen Nelson
Faking it With Gravity creates a space of inquiry to study and research Contact Improvisation* (CI), including Tuning Scores* and Material for the Spine* (MFS.) In CI we dance with gravity. That sensation, our first handshake-touch with the earth, dances us through its field for our whole lifetime. “small dance,” the quiet inner sensation of our…
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Jan 17 || SMALLER || Nica Portavia, Karen Nelson, Evan Strauss
Visiting artists Karen (Chuki) Nelson and Nica Portavia, with musician Evan Strauss, perform SMALLER. A small touch carries the vibration dance of inside life and inside music. We give dance where a tangible touch can equal an intangible result. And invisible communications touch and clarify, confuse, and discover the already there.
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Oct 19-Nov 23 | Fall Fieldwork with Jen Mitas & Katherine Longstreth
Join experience Fieldwork facilitators Jen Mitas and Katherine Longstreth for Fall Fieldwork at PWNW. Learn about your work, develop your feedback skills, and build creative community. Fieldwork feedback is supportive, honest and non-directorial. ALL DISCIPLINES WELCOME!
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Sept-Nov | Awareness Through Movement® | dee bustos
dee bustos is offering three free Awareness Through Movement® lessons this fall at PWWNW that will explore some classic Feldenkrais® sequences/ Awareness Through Movement® lessons guide students through gentle, mindful movement sequences that cultivate awareness of habitual movement patterns and create new pathways for easeful, functional movements for everyday living.
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2024 | Fall Events
music and performance art events,, a vocal workshop, a festival, and more!
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Introducing the 2024-25 Alembic Residency Cohort
It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new cohort of Alembic Resident Artists and this year is no exception. Before introducing the artists, we want thank this year’s dedicated panelists: claire barrera, K.T. Kusmaul and Tere Mathern. As we had a larger pool of very deserving applicants this year, the panelist’s job was especially difficult,…
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Sept 22 | PASTfuture | Linda K. Johnson in Conversation with Joan Findlay
Linda K. Johnson interviews Joan Findlay as part of the PASTfuture series of conversations during TBA:2024, creating an inclusive, nonhierarchical oral record of the stories of artists in the Portland community who have committed their live’s work to the field of dance.
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Sept 28 | workshop #2: new & in-progress sound and music
Join us for “workshop #2” featuring new and in-process works by Helen Spencer-Wallace, Long Drive Theatre and Thick in the Throat Honey. workshop, curated by stephanie lavon trotter, is a series for musicians and artists working in sound to present new and in-progress works and compositions. “workshop” supports experimentation, improvisation and composed sound and noise, maybe even “songs”.
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Oct 18-19 | Jenny Peterson & Kaitlin McCarthy | Drive Wolves Mad
Collaborative duo Jenny Peterson and Kaitlin McCarthy present an evening-length dance work of horror, humor, and friendship, told through their distinctive aesthetic of the unhinged and uncanny. Featuring musical scoring by Jenny Peterson, the duo traipses through reimagined pop hits in a journey to exist in a world where they create their own context.
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August 9 || Public Nature at Leaven Community Center || Austin, Lamb, Eubanks + Jenkins
Public Nature performance series presents an offering at Leaven Community Center Linda Austin – Dance || Catherine Lamb – Viola, Voice || Bryan Eubanks & JP Jenkins -Saxophone, Guitar || Occurring monthly in roaming venues, Public Nature, curated by Danielle Ross and JP Jenkins, includes artists working across disciplines including dance, experimental performance, sound, and…
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 